Category: History

32 Issues of the Humboldt Historian. A broken run of this historical quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2001 to Vol. 59, No. 3, 2011.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Eureka, CA, Humboldt County Historical Society

Seller ID: 5635

Condition: Fine

4to; stapled magazine format printed on coated stock. Historical cover illustrations; historical articles on Humboldt County, California; copiously illustrated with half-tone photographs and other historical reproductions, maps.
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Polonaise Ball, 1998. Honoring Polish Contributions to the Gold Rush Era on its 150th Anniversary.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Polish Arts and Culture Foundation : 1998

Seller ID: 3681

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

55 pp.; 4to; illustrated card covers with portrait of Helena Modrzejewska-Modjeska on front and Gen. Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski back; reproductions; portrait photographs of historical figures with biographical information; advertisements. Ball held at the Fairmont Hotel, November 14, 1998.
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The State Register and Year Book of Facts: For the Year 1857.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Henry G. Langley and Samuel A. Mathews : 1857

Seller ID: 10127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

iv, 384pp., (including 33 full page ads). 7 1/2x4 1/2, original black leather-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. An Appleton's Railway Guide, Time Indicator page is laid down on verso of front endpaper; tables & lists throughout. Front joint cracked but holding fairly firm; spine ends & joints rubbed; moderate soil to cover with fading at extremities; tanning to endpaper; scattered foxing throughout. Some copies show viii pp. of ad pages at the front in addition to advertisements in the rear. Published only in 1857, and 1859. (Cowan II, p. 610)
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The Zamorano Club Programs, 1928 - 1991.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, The Zamorano Club : 1992

Seller ID: 2291

Condition: Fine

200 copies printed.
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Image for [Cover Title] In the Supreme Court, State of California, in the Matter of the Application of Abraham Ruef for a writ of Habeas Corpus, criminal no. 1400 : memorandum supporting proposition that section 1129 of the penal code denying bail in bailable cases

[Cover Title] In the Supreme Court, State of California, in the Matter of the Application of Abraham Ruef for a writ of Habeas Corpus, criminal no. 1400 : memorandum supporting proposition that section 1129 of the penal code denying bail in bailable cases

By: (ABE REUF, CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT).

Price: $250.00

Publisher: [No Place], [no publisher] : 1907

Seller ID: 8756

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

24 pp.; 4to; original printed, stapled gray wrappers. Moderate tanning at edges; strip of heavier tanning across lower back cover; half-inch closed tear rear cover leading edge; light tanning to front endpaper.
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Image for Noticias de California : first report of the occupation by the Portola Expedition, 1770, with facsimiles of the original printings, a new translation, contemporary maps, and a narrative of how it all came to pass.

Noticias de California : first report of the occupation by the Portola Expedition, 1770, with facsimiles of the original printings, a new translation, contemporary maps, and a narrative of how it all came to pass.

By: (Carlos Francisco de Croix Croix, marqueÌs)de; George P Hammond.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Book Club of California : 1958

Seller ID: 8232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

400 copies issued. 53 pp.; 4to; printed and decorated dull purple paper over boards; black cloth back, in plain paper jacket. Frontis is a nicely reproduced folding map with border vignettes that was first included in Father Miguel Venegas's, 'Noticiia', 1757. Folding map in rear is the Map of California by Miguel Costanso, Mexico, 1771. These along with reproductions of manuscripts and a sketch of the Presidio of Monterey.
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Noticias de California : first report of the occupation by the Portola Expedition, 1770, with facsimiles of the original printings, a new translation, contemporary maps, and a narrative of how it all came to pass. [Inscribed by the author]

By: (Carlos Francisco de Croix Croix, marqueÌs)de; George P Hammond.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Book Club of California : 1958

Seller ID: 10254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

400 copies issued. 53 pp.; 4to; printed and decorated dull purple paper over boards; black cloth back, without plain paper jacket. Frontis is a nicely reproduced folding map with border vignettes that was first included in Father Miguel Venegas's, 'Noticiia', 1757. Folding map in rear is the Map of California by Miguel Costanso, Mexico, 1771. These along with reproductions of manuscripts and a sketch of the Presidio of Monterey. Bookplate of author & editor Dwight Lancelot Clarke on front pastedown. "Inscribed to my good frind Dwight L. Clarke by George P. Hammond," on second endpaper. Clarke ...
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Image for Narrative of Guillermo Fitch and Blas Pia. Taken on Board of Steamer M.S. Latham on Her Voyage from San Francisco to Donahue. April 16th, 1874. Translated by members of Los Hispanistas, Spanish club of the C.K. McClatchy senior high school, from the orig

Narrative of Guillermo Fitch and Blas Pia. Taken on Board of Steamer M.S. Latham on Her Voyage from San Francisco to Donahue. April 16th, 1874. Translated by members of Los Hispanistas, Spanish club of the C.K. McClatchy senior high school, from the orig

By: (Cerruti, Enrique, compiler) Guillermo Fitch and Blas Pia.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Sacramento, The Nugget Press; C. K. McClatchy Senior High School : 1941

Seller ID: 10134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No. 73 of 125 copies on white laid Buckeye Text paper in Intertype Baskerville and Regal type for private distribution. x, 34pp; 8vo; brown cloth lettered in pink. Nice frontispiece "We Fought Bears with Bulls" reproduced from a linoleum block cut by Louie Romiti. The beginning of the Nugget Press was in 1939 with its first publication, a translation from the German, of Heinrich Lienhard's "I Knew Sutter." This, the third publication of the press continues the tradition of having some student group write, print, bind, and copyright at least one book each year. The result is this beautifully pr...
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Image for Proceedings of The Society of California Pioneers in Reference to the Histories of Hubert Howe Bancroft. (Including:) Misrepresentations of early California history corrected : proceedings of the Society of California Pioneers in regard to certain misrepr

Proceedings of The Society of California Pioneers in Reference to the Histories of Hubert Howe Bancroft. (Including:) Misrepresentations of early California history corrected : proceedings of the Society of California Pioneers in regard to certain misrepr

By: (Farwell Willard B.) Kenneth M. Johnson.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: [San Francisco], no date (c1965) : 1965

Seller ID: 2511

Condition: Fine

Proceedings (cover title & title page) and Misrepresentations (2nd title page): 37 pps., printed on one side, loose in printed, card stock folder. Manuscript: (31) pps. including: I-II, pub. note, 21 pp., plus 5 pages marked v thru z to be be added after a deletion on p. 21, and 3 pages marked a, b, c, to be inserted on page 6. There are two copies each of the additional pages. All housed in accordion file folder. With the publication of the Proceedings, Farwell condemned Bancroft and his History of California very likely, according to the Publisher's Note, because of his treatment John C. Fre...
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Image for California Homes and Industries and Representative Citizens. A Serial Showing the Improvements and Progress of the State, and containing hundreds of beautiful etchings, photogravures, artotypes, and artistic colored lithographs. This Number is Devoted Exc

California Homes and Industries and Representative Citizens. A Serial Showing the Improvements and Progress of the State, and containing hundreds of beautiful etchings, photogravures, artotypes, and artistic colored lithographs. This Number is Devoted Exc

By: (FRESNO COUNTY LOCAL HISTORY).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Fresno, Fresno City and County Historical Society : 1982

Seller ID: 9215

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

94 pp.; folio; color illustrated wrappers; reproductions of the original illustrations, albeit not with the original quality. "The original book from which this copy was reproduced is in the Woodward Collection at the California State University, Fresno. It is the only known copy to be in existence." This reprint also appears to be a bit scarce.
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Image for An Oakland Chronology. Compiled by the Oakland Public Library History Division during the centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Oakland, May 4, 1852. (Cover Title)

An Oakland Chronology. Compiled by the Oakland Public Library History Division during the centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Oakland, May 4, 1852. (Cover Title)

By: (OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oakland, Oakland Public Library : 1952

Seller ID: 11256

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

17 pp.; 8vo; stapled, printed plain paper wrappers.
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Image for A True Relation of the Manner of the Deposing of King Edward II. together with the Articles which were Exhibited against him in Parliament. As also, an exact account of the proceedings and articles against King Richard II: and the manner of his deposition

A True Relation of the Manner of the Deposing of King Edward II. together with the Articles which were Exhibited against him in Parliament. As also, an exact account of the proceedings and articles against King Richard II: and the manner of his deposition

By: (Richard Baldwin; George Montagu-Dunk Halifax, Earl of; William Petty Lansdowne, Marquis of; Walter Yonge; Fabian Philipps).

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Richard Baldwin : 1689

Seller ID: 10130

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

36pp.; square 12mo; in later black marbled paper wrappers with slight creasing and wear at edges. Pages 4 & 5 with some tanning in the gutter near lower edge, off of the text; p. 6 thru 8 with a few spots of foxing; the rest of the text shows only light foxing at edges.
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Albion The Origins of the English Imagination

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus : 2002

Seller ID: 10873

ISBN-13: 9781856197212

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Includes Notes, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with color and half-tone historical reproductions. ; 9.2 X 6.5 X 1.8 inches; 516 pages
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The Cowman Says It Salty.

By: Adams, Ramon F.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Tucson, The University of Arizona Press : 1971

Seller ID: 6616

ISBN-13: 9780816503117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

163 pp.; 8vo; green cloth lettered in gilt; in pictorial green jacket. Illustrations by Vic Donahue. A study of Cowboy lingo and its traditions. Fine , with protective mylar wrap
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Sonoma Valley Legacy. Histories and sites of 70 historic adobes in and around the Sonoma Valley. [Inscribed by the author].

By: Alexander, James B.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Sonoma, CA, Sonoma Valley Historical Society : 1986

Seller ID: 9648

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Inscribed, "best regards, from the author" and signed on title page. 76 pp., includes bibliography; 12" x 9"; pictorial color wrappers; full of black & white photographs, plans, and other reproductions.; Signed by Author(s)
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North Beach Magazine (Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2, 3).

By: ANBIAN, ROBERT, ED.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: (San Francisco), Fair Productions 1985; 1986 : 1985

Seller ID: 9336

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

3 magazines starting with the Premier Issue; 10.75" x 8.25"; stapled, illustrated covers; articles, illustrations, photographs, advertisements throughout. On the evolving life of this San Francisco neighborhood, "the soul of the city."
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Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy

By: Anglo, Sydney

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Oxford, At the Clarendon Press : 1969

Seller ID: 10597

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket

Front endpaper with 1x2" piece cut out leading top edge, else fine. ; Cloth in dust jacket with plain mylar cover. ; Oxford-Warburg Studies; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 375 pages
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[Two Titles]: A History of Tuolumne County, California : compiled from the most authentic records [together with] Annals of Tuolumne County.

By: Anon; Stoddart,Thomas Robertson.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: (Sonora); Fresno, Tuolumne County Historical Society; Valley Pub. 1983; 1977 : 1983

Seller ID: 10046

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

HISTORY: 509pp., plus 48 page appendix; 8vo; red wrappers; portraits. Facsimle reprint of the 1882 edition published by B. F. Alley. ANNALS: 188pp.; yellow wrappers; illustrations. Fine condition.
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A Fifth Reader.

By: Arnold and Gilbert.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sacramento, W. W. Shannon Superintendant State Printing : 1910

Seller ID: 9267

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

304 pp.; 8vo; cloth in homemade cloth protective cover, with sewn flaps; illustrations. Ownership signature of German Miller, 437 Hill St., San Francisco Cal. on front endpaper. Also on the rest of the front e.p., and continuing to the verso, a short biography in pencil : "Jerry Miller was a San Franciscan born and bred. He was rather a gruff man & twice married . . .with wife, one son, Gordon . . . his second wife, Lillian Harris, widow of Harris who committed suicide about 1931-32 by driving a car into Crystal Springs Lake at the concrete dam one night . . .", etc, etc. Tanning to endpapers,...
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California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton, 1836 - 1839. Edited with an introduction by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.

By: Atherton, Faxon Dean.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Francisco, California Historical Soc. : 1964

Seller ID: 5949

Condition: Fine condition Very Good jacket

246 pps., incl. extensive notes and bibliography; 8vo; blue cloth stamped in gilt; illustrated with folding maps & reproductions; black & white photographs. In dust jacket with light soil, tanning to spine & edges

Covers the era of Mexican appointed governors, political turmoil, explosively growing trade, rebellion, etc.
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Category: History